Mar 1st: Music

On March 1st, Mr Truscott was teaching us about transposing music and how roman numerals are used to do so.  We said that in the key of C, there are no sharps or flats, in the key of G, there is only F# and in the key of F, there is only Bb.  We then wrote out the chords in the key of G with roman numerals under each one like so...

D E F# G A B C

B C D E F# G A

G A B C D E F#

 I II III IV V VI VII

Mr Truscott then said that chords 1, 4 and 5 go together well as do 2 and 6 but chords 3 and 7 didn’t really go very well.  This is the same for every key.  By using roman numerals, you can write a chord pattern and show it to someone; they can then play it in whatever key they like.  This makes it easier to transpose music as the chords will change but the numbers will be the same.

We made a grid like this to fill in with our chord pattern.